Cautious Ross County boss Derek Adams nets prize

ROSS County manager Derek Adams received the Irn-Bru manager of the month award for March yesterday, however he was in no mood to confirm that the next honour he will be picking up will be the First Division championship trophy.

The Dingwall men are undefeated in 28 league games and sit 15 points clear and can be crowned champions tomorrow if they beat Livingston and second-place Dundee fail to overcome Falkirk, however Adams is not counting any championship chickens.

Adams said: “We need four points to do anything so we are only concentrating on beating Livingston and getting three points from that game. It will be a hard enough encounter against a Livi side that are scoring a lot of goals without thinking about anything else. My players have been magnificent to go so long undefeated and the only target they have been set is to get to the end of the season undefeated.”

County’s dominance of the division has led to criticism from his peers, but Adams was not getting involved in any mud-slinging. “Perhaps it was a psychological thing to try and put us off our game at a crucial part of the season,” he said. “It didn’t work as we stuck to what we’ve been doing all season long and came through a hectic period of games unscathed.”